Realistically, is there any chance that Smith gets fired this year?
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gmo said:
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From Jood: Two-year contracts for UW’s assistant coaches expire at the end of January, and Petersen said “we’re making progress” on new deals for the assistants.
He was asked if he expects any changes to his staff. “No,” he said, adding: “We evaluate everything at the end of the season and go from there.”
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Does anyone ever have the balls to just ask CP....."with the inefficiency of the offense, and it rating at the bottom of the pac12 all season is it time to look in a different direction?"SilkyJohnston said:From Jood: Two-year contracts for UW’s assistant coaches expire at the end of January, and Petersen said “we’re making progress” on new deals for the assistants.
He was asked if he expects any changes to his staff. “No,” he said, adding: “We evaluate everything at the end of the season and go from there.”
WE? ARE SO FUCKED
I would just like to see someone from seattle actually have a pair to ask real questions even if we know he'll likely get the boiler plate response. -
Only hope is a complete failure in the bowl game offensively.
Even then he will only be demoted to QB coach.
Worst offense in the Pac 2 years running. The slowest 2 minute offense on the planet. The TD drive against Oregon that took like 6 minutes and wasted timeouts after letting clock run and down 2 possessions was criminal.
I've never hated a coach more than in that sequence.
The excuse for the lack of urgency was "we wanted to make sure we got the plays right", which basically meant "I can't think fast enough to beat anyone with a pulse".
Also, why aren't you taking the time to make sure the plays are right when there is no clock pressure?
Also, when FS Helfrich gifts another possession, he throws the greenest QB in there instead of the upperclassmen captain who can only do the one thing you need: rockets down the field. Cartas shitting of the bed the next week further shows how out of touch Smith is with his own personnel.
It's not a coincidence UW has lost every game in the Petersen/smith era with the ball and a chance to win at the end of the game.
That is purely on coaching. Something needs to change. -
It's a fucking country club. They will all just protect eachother and get eachother paid. That's what happens when you have a worthless administration with no expectations for success. FYFMFE. -
If our WRs aren't very good, then it is the coach's fault for continuing to call plays that have a low probability of success given our WR skill level. That is 100% on the coaches.
A smart coach assesses the player skill level, and develops a game plan that maximizes our chances of getting first downs and points using those skills.
Our coaches instead, tried to get our players to learn their playbook -- which ignores the fact that they weren't good enough for those plays (for whatever reason) -- and the result is that our offense sucked all year -- except against the shittiest defenses or in a couple of cases where our defense handed us 5+ extra possessions per game and scored nearly half of our points.
Smith didn't improve as the Season went on, we just played some of the worst teams (or a team missing its starting QB) at the end of the season.
We absolutely need a new OC. Smith has had 2 seasons to show us he is the guy, and he has shown us that he IS NOT the guy.
I don't even want him retained as a QB coach. Has our QB play improved? I haven't seen it.
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There is a better chance of me two holing Michele Obama than Smiff getting canned.
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First half of the season was horrific on offense, no question. But I don't really GAF what happened a couple of months ago, as we all knew the offense was historically young and would have issues. The 2nd half of the season, however, here's the offensive numbers...
AZ - 468 yards, 49 points, +4 turnovers
Utah - 381 yards, 23 points, -1 turnovers + Durkee botched punt
ASU - 547 yards, 17 points, -4 turnovers
OSU - 482 yards, 52 points, +2 turnovers
WSU - 443 yards, 45 points, +6 turnovers
Yards from scrimmage is not the issue. We outgained every opponent. An average of 464 yards/game. Extrapolate over 12 games, it would be #27 in the country. Not great, but decent.
Moral of the facts? If we win the turnover battle, we win the game. And it's FS to pin turnovers on coaching.
We were way to slow to ditch the wild Swede, and playcalling has been too cute for my pallet, but the offensive production in the past 5 weeks has been pretty darn good, other the turnovers in a couple of games.
Long story short, fire Peterman and Babushka. -
So, like 50%?Swaye said:There is a better chance of me two holing Michele Obama than Smiff getting canned.
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21 of the 45 were scored by the D in the Apple cup. I can't even remember about the rest of those games but the D has scored a ton this season.HuskyInAZ said:First half of the season was horrific on offense, no question. But I don't really GAF what happened a couple of months ago, as we all knew the offense was historically young and would have issues. The 2nd half of the season, however, here's the offensive numbers...
AZ - 468 yards, 49 points, +4 turnovers
Utah - 381 yards, 23 points, -1 turnovers + Durkee botched punt
ASU - 547 yards, 17 points, -4 turnovers
OSU - 482 yards, 52 points, +2 turnovers
WSU - 443 yards, 45 points, +6 turnovers
Yards from scrimmage is not the issue. We outgained every opponent. An average of 464 yards/game. Extrapolate over 12 games, it would be #27 in the country. Not great, but decent.
Moral of the facts? If we win the turnover battle, we win the game. And it's FS to pin turnovers on coaching.
We were way to slow to ditch the wild Swede, and playcalling has been too cute for my pallet, but the offensive production in the past 5 weeks has been pretty darn good, other the turnovers in a couple of games.
Long story short, fire Peterman and Babushka.
Not to mention putting the O in position to score 6 but only getting 3.
Youth is not an excuse for horrendous 2 minute drills in terms of pace. Smith hasn't been able to instill any urgency into the plan and play calling for 2 years and UW has lost all those games with enough on the field to win because of coaching blunders.
Smith gots to go.
